TO ME, MY BIRD! Golden, Silver, etc.
In this issue:
Smashing Pumpkins "Zeitgeist"
High Places "Golden"
Del tha Funkee Homosapien live in Anchorage, AK
But first...
Silver Surfer #8 from Marvel Comics. Firstly, I'd like to point out how there is nobody on Earth who would pass up a chance to buy this comic based on the cover. Even better, this actually is what the comic is like!
Surfer lounges at home reading the paper and asks Shalla-Bal where his pipe and slippers are. She thinks they might be under the rat. The silver rat in the corner there.We find out over the next few pages that she was right and he proceeds to smoke his teeny tiny slippers and sit in his giant pipe. You'll notice Shalla in a stylish FF outfit here (is Norrin secretly into Sue? Johnny?) but on the next page she is wearing her traditional outfit, then Mantis' costume, then she is Mantis, and then some Kree bust in his door and tell him they don't like the way he thinks! The nerve. Good thing the silver rat saves his butt at this point, and surfer escapes. He is pursued by some Kree with very stylish facial hair.
Good thing for our hero, he knows who he is...
He's a naked dude riding a silver dog. From here, we watch the former herald become increasingly self-aware, until he realizes that he is unconscious and being experimented on by the Kree and the Supreme Intelligence , who is manifesting in the Surfer's mind as the octo-dragon thingy. This issue clearly has some build up from previous issues, and has a interspersed tertiary plot about Shalla-Bal, but it still works completely on its own. In the climax, SS summons his board from his unconscious state, awakens, surfs through the Supreme Intelligence , and snatches the soul gem on the way. w00000000000!!!!! This is something you would enjoy if you like Seth Fisher. 10/10!
From Silver to "Golden", High Places have recently released a new song on their MySpace Page. "Golden" is a great track that is distinctly High Places, while bringing something distinctly new to the table. It seems maybe 'dancier' despite having a less formal beat and less distinguishable lyrics than previous releases. best of all this is a song from an upcoming full length release. Yay! I like this song a bunch. And it's free.
In other High Places news, they were featured in the last ever issue of Punk Planet magazine, and they have a 7" coming out as a joint release by CAFF/FLICK and Reverse Retro (who were also in that same issue of Punk Planet). I've heard the tracks and they are both great. Band of the future, Today!
And then there was Smashing Pumpkins come back album "Zeitgeist". I don't want to dwell to much on this, because really, it sucks. Maybe more accurately, it's boring. What was so bold and awesome 10-15 years ago is now so stale and safe. Hard rock is the new adult-contemporary. I do like some of the tracks. The stand outs are Doomsday Clock, 7 Shades of Black, and Tarantula. On a proper Pumpkins album, these tracks would be filler, but the entire album is so homogeneous you could only have at most two of these in a good mix. This album is for your uncle who likes to listen to rock and roll in a completely safe way, and pretend he's rockin' out while he flips burgers. There is just no life in it.
I got the chance to see Del tha funkee homosapien this past week. I had a bunch of fun, but I'd say I was a little let down by Del's set. This is due probably to nothing other than my own unrealistically high expectations. I saw lots of people there, including Van Sanders, who is the first person to introduce me to Del about 10 years ago. Pretty much every cool person over 21 (and a few under) was there. Tons of fun. Thanks goes to Heather.
I'd like to talk about a lot more, but I'm outta time. Blogging is hard, and I'm sorry if I have ever been upset with anyone for not getting one out on time. Thanks for reading, leave me a comment if I figure out how to enable that.
Smashing Pumpkins "Zeitgeist"
High Places "Golden"
Del tha Funkee Homosapien live in Anchorage, AK
But first...
Silver Surfer #8 from Marvel Comics. Firstly, I'd like to point out how there is nobody on Earth who would pass up a chance to buy this comic based on the cover. Even better, this actually is what the comic is like!
The Silver Surfer, riding a giant silver bird, battling a dragon with an octopus head, in the death-grip of the beast's jaws yelling, "TO ME, MY BIRD!" I read this issue that I had been saving for a while in response to the craving i got to read a real Silver Surfer story after seeing Fantastic Four 2. This comic from February of 1988 was written by Steve Englehart, penciled and colored by Marshall Rogers, and inked by Joe Rubinstein. Englehart and Rogers are famous for a pretty long run on the batman books that include the masterful "Joker Fish" story. Anyhow, these guys aren't pulling any punches in this story, which is an insane head trip from page 1:
Good thing for our hero, he knows who he is...
He's a naked dude riding a silver dog. From here, we watch the former herald become increasingly self-aware, until he realizes that he is unconscious and being experimented on by the Kree and the Supreme Intelligence , who is manifesting in the Surfer's mind as the octo-dragon thingy. This issue clearly has some build up from previous issues, and has a interspersed tertiary plot about Shalla-Bal, but it still works completely on its own. In the climax, SS summons his board from his unconscious state, awakens, surfs through the Supreme Intelligence , and snatches the soul gem on the way. w00000000000!!!!! This is something you would enjoy if you like Seth Fisher. 10/10!
From Silver to "Golden", High Places have recently released a new song on their MySpace Page. "Golden" is a great track that is distinctly High Places, while bringing something distinctly new to the table. It seems maybe 'dancier' despite having a less formal beat and less distinguishable lyrics than previous releases. best of all this is a song from an upcoming full length release. Yay! I like this song a bunch. And it's free.
In other High Places news, they were featured in the last ever issue of Punk Planet magazine, and they have a 7" coming out as a joint release by CAFF/FLICK and Reverse Retro (who were also in that same issue of Punk Planet). I've heard the tracks and they are both great. Band of the future, Today!
And then there was Smashing Pumpkins come back album "Zeitgeist". I don't want to dwell to much on this, because really, it sucks. Maybe more accurately, it's boring. What was so bold and awesome 10-15 years ago is now so stale and safe. Hard rock is the new adult-contemporary. I do like some of the tracks. The stand outs are Doomsday Clock, 7 Shades of Black, and Tarantula. On a proper Pumpkins album, these tracks would be filler, but the entire album is so homogeneous you could only have at most two of these in a good mix. This album is for your uncle who likes to listen to rock and roll in a completely safe way, and pretend he's rockin' out while he flips burgers. There is just no life in it.
I got the chance to see Del tha funkee homosapien this past week. I had a bunch of fun, but I'd say I was a little let down by Del's set. This is due probably to nothing other than my own unrealistically high expectations. I saw lots of people there, including Van Sanders, who is the first person to introduce me to Del about 10 years ago. Pretty much every cool person over 21 (and a few under) was there. Tons of fun. Thanks goes to Heather.
I'd like to talk about a lot more, but I'm outta time. Blogging is hard, and I'm sorry if I have ever been upset with anyone for not getting one out on time. Thanks for reading, leave me a comment if I figure out how to enable that.
Labels: comic books, comics, Del, funkee homosapien, Golden, High Places, music, Silver Surfer, Smashing Pumpkins, Zeitgeist
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